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Lamps

📖 In short

A lamp is something that gives us light. Since it was invented thousands of years ago, people no longer depend only on sunlight and can read, work and get together at night. Lamps developed from a small pot of oil to modern electric lights.

🤩 Did you know?

Thomas Edison created the first practical electric bulb in 1879.
William Murdoch invented important commercial gas lighting in 1792.
There are three main kinds of lamps: oil, gas and electric.
A flashlight runs on a battery.

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🌟 Oil lamps

The first lamps were stone or clay bowls holding oil or fat, with a cloth wick at one end that burned. Clay oil lamps were common in Arab and Roman homes.

🔍 Gas lamps

More than two hundred years ago people began lighting streets and homes with lamps that burned gas, and a man came round in the evening to light the street lamps one by one.

💡 The electric bulb

In 1879 Edison made a practical electric bulb that shone for many hours, and electric light began spreading through cities, then the whole world.

🎯 Ramadan lantern

In Egypt and many Arab countries children carry beautiful colorful lanterns in Ramadan. They used to be lit with candles, and today many light up with electricity and sing!